Poems (Eliza Gabriella Lewis)/The Reverse

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THE REVERSE.
Life was to me a summer day, So full of youth and bloom, Of light and lovliness; and earth, A garden of perfume.
I knew not that those sunny hours  Could be by storms o'ercast; I did but dream that gentle showers  Would fall—too light to last.
And yet I've lived to see that sky  By tempests wildly riven: To see earth's flow'rets fade and die, Before the whirlwind driven.
To mourn, with anguish'd heart, the wreck  Of all that made life fair; To feel that roses oft may deck  The forehead of despair.
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